biography
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rə noun, plural bi·og·ra·phies.
1.
a written account of another person's life: the biography of Byron by Marchand.
2.
an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.
3.
such writings collectively.
4.
the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor.
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| —n , pl -phies | |
| 1. | an account of a person's life by another |
| 2. | such accounts collectively |
| bi'ographer | |
| —n | |
| biographical | |
| —adj | |
| bio'graphic | |
| —adj | |
| bio'graphically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
biography
1680s, probably from L. biographia, from Gk. bio- "life" (see bio-) + graphia "record, account," from graphein "to write." Biographia was not in classical Gk. (bios alone was the word for it), though it is attested in later Gk. from c.500. Biographer is recorded from 1715; biographical from 1738.
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Cultural Dictionary
biography definition
The story of someone's life. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, and Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg, are two noted biographies. The story of the writer's own life is an autobiography.
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Example sentences
It is not a straight biography, nor is it an entirely fictionalized account.
Only a few important facts from his crowded biography can be given here.
This biography details Rolston's life and his philosophy of the value of nature.
Her book is not a biography, nor does it aspire to be.
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